Ice-skate.



W. S. BUTTON.

ICE SKATE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12, 1912.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

WIZ MZZa/Y A Home WITNESSES THE NORRIS PETERS CO., FHO7D-LI1HO.,WASHINGTON, D Q

ii To all whom it may concern:

UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE. 1

wILL AIlrs'rEwAnT BUTTON, or RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA.

Be it known that ,I, WniLLur STEWART BUTTON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, re-

siding at Riverside, in the county of River-- ,side and State ofCalifornia, have-invented certainnew and usefulImprovements in Ice-S'kates, of which the following is a specification.

plates.

Another object of the inventlon is to pro vide an iceskate havin Ylneanswhereby shock will be absorbed rat er thantransmit.

ted to the wearer.

With the above and other Objects in View whichwill be moreyfully setforthlater on in V the specification, I have invented the deviceillustrated in the accompanying drawings in which, v,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved skate, and Fig. 2 is asectional Copies of this patent may he obtained for view taken online2-2 of Fig. 1 and showing the under surfaceof the heel and sole plate.

Like reference characters indicate like parts in the specification andin the several views of the drawings i in ;which 1 indicates a skaterunner having project ing portions 2and 3 for supportinga heel plate andprojecting portions 4 and *5 for,

supporting a soleplate, Theheel plate 7 is'provided with guide members8, 9, 10 and 11, rigidly connected to the end-portion of said plate 7and'which are spaced apart in order to straddle the members 2 and 8.Each of the supporting members are provided with elongated slots 12 inthe lower ends ICE-SKATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

This invention relates to improvements in I ice skates and. it has foran object to provide an ice skate forreceiving heel and sole thereofwhichareslidable over-the pins 13 in the members 2 and 3. Seated underthe central portion of the heel plate is a spring 14. which depends intothe space between the members 2 and 3 and over the member 16 and againstthe surface 17 whereby said heel plate 7 is held out of contactwith themembers 2 and 3, and is supported entirely by means of said spring.

The sole plate 18 may be made preferably of spring steel or otherflexible material and is secured at its forward portion to the projecting member 6 and is supported at its rear portion bymeansof thespring 19 and held in position by the members 20, 21, 22

and 23 in the same manner as the heel plate is supported. a I

My improved skate may be secured to the sole of a shoe by means ofscrews or in any other suitable Or desirable manner.

I do not limit myself to theconstruction shown and described, but

What I desire to secure by Letters Patent is: t Ina skate, a runner,upstanding projections formed thereon, a plate, spaced brackets arrangedinpairs at the endsof the plate and engaging the opposite sides of theprojectlons, said brackets having alining slots formed therein, pinsextending from the projections through the slots, and a spring disposedbetween the plate and runner.

Intestimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM STEWART BUTTON.

Witnesses:

,RENA E. SMITH, CHAS. E. JOHNSON.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Iatents,

Washington, D. 0."

Patented Sept. 22, 1914. Application filed March'12, 1912. Serial No.683,386.

